Vol. 39 No. 21 · 2 November 2017

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Vol. 39 No. 21 · 2 November 2017

Letters

Marina Warner, Danny Dorling, Jonathan Spencer, Katharine Birbalsingh, Aidan Byrne, Giovanni d’Avossa, Frederick Crews, Andrew Finlay, H.E. Taylor, Margaret Faull

Andrew Bacevich

Foreign Relations of the US, 1952-54, Iran, 1951-54 edited by James Van Hook. for the Department of State/Washington DC. Chiron Academic Press, 970 pp., £20, September 2017, 978 91 7637 496 2

Andy Beckett

Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Postwar Britain by Clair Wills. Allen Lane, 442 pp., £25, August 2017, 978 1 84614 716 6

Lucy Prebble

Short Cuts: Harvey Weinstein

Piero Gleijeses

Cuba’s Revolutionary World by Jonathan Brown. Harvard, 600 pp., £25, April 2017, 978 0 674 97198 1

Mike Davis

El Diablo in Wine Country

Madeleine Schwartz

The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead. Apollo, 528 pp., £10, April 2016, 978 1 78497 148 9
Letty Fox: Her Luck by Christina Stead. Apollo, 592 pp., £14, May 2017, 978 1 78669 139 2

Malcolm Gaskill

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton. Yale, 360 pp., £25, August 2017, 978 0 300 22904 2

Jorie Graham

Poem: ‘From the Transience’

Gavin Francis

Awwooooooooooooooooo!

Jane Campbell

Story: ‘Story: ‘Cat-Brushing’’

Deborah Friedell

The Inkblots by Damion Searls. Simon and Schuster, 406 pp., £20, February 2017, 978 1 4711 3041 0

Greg Woolf

Images of Mithra by Philippa Adrych, Robert Bracey, Dominic Dalglish, Stefanie Lenk and Rachel Wood. Oxford, 240 pp., £30, March 2017, 978 0 19 879253 6

Miriam Dobson

Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring by Kathleen E. Smith. Harvard, 448 pp., £23.95, April 2017, 978 0 674 97200 1

Stefan Collini

Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History by Joseph North. Harvard, 272 pp., £31.95, May 2017, 978 0 674 96773 1

Eleanor Birne

At Tate Britain: Rachel Whiteread

Adam Smyth

The Print Before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550-1820 by Antony Griffiths. British Museum, 560 pp., £60, August 2016, 978 0 7141 2695 1

Michael Wood

At the Movies: ‘Blade Runner 2049’

Edmund Gordon

The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead. Virago, 304 pp., £20, April 2017, 978 0 349 00877 6
‘The Debutante’ and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington. Silver Press, 153 pp., £9.99, April 2017, 978 0 9957162 0 9
Down Below by Leonora Carrington. NYRB, 69 pp., £8.99, May 2017, 978 1 68137 060 6
Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde edited by Jonathan Eburne and Catriona McAra. Manchester, 275 pp., £75, January 2017, 978 1 78499 436 5

Rebecca Tamás

Two Poems

Duncan Wheeler

After the Vote

Patrick McGuinness

Diary: Railway Poetry

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